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The North Sea Division fleet of the Ming Empire, after the battle began, that is, after the declaration of war on Japan, drove to the vicinity of the mouth of the Yalu River and carried out large-scale destructive artillery bombardment against the coastal targets of the Japanese army.

In today's world weapons system, there are only two different standards for the caliber of artillery and firearms. The widest range and the most used are the millimeter caliber system of the Ming Empire; However, there are also many powerful countries that use weights and measures that originated in the United Kingdom.

On land, many countries continue to use the standard caliber 8mm infantry bullets of the Ming Empire. Including Germany, Austria-Hungary, Muscovy, Ceylon, Japan, etc., ammunition of this caliber is used. At the same time, these countries also followed the Ming military system in terms of artillery, including 20, 30, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200, 300, 400 and other calibers.

On the contrary, at sea, almost all the navies of the world, including the Ming Empire, follow the British Navy's artillery caliber standards, including the famous 305 mm caliber, 356 mm caliber, 381 mm caliber and other large guns. Japan even covertly used a giant cannon like the 410 to enhance the attack capability of its warships to fight independently.

The caliber of the guns generally equipped on the battleships of the Ming Empire was 356 mm. These main guns have a considerable destructive power, and can run at speeds of more than 20 knots with the battleship, making support easier and faster. Therefore, after the Ming army started the war, it used its own battleships to shell the Japanese positions.

The main reason why most of the naval guns of the world's navies are designed and built according to the standards of the British Navy is that the war that broke out near Gibraltar and determined the supremacy of the sea for the next 100 years.

The British naval fleet used 110 battleships to meet the 310 warships of the Ming Empire Expeditionary Fleet. The largest and longest naval war in the Sail Era lasted for more than 3 years, and finally ended with the Ming army's lack of logistical supplies and huge losses.

It was also this battle that completely cut off the Ming army's road to military conquest of the European continent and created a brilliant victory for the British Imperial Navy. After this war, Britain gained colonial control over parts of the African continent and developed South America and the American continent, becoming the world's largest military power.

The first to develop ironclad ships also made the British naval fleet more powerful, so that the later development of modern steel warships of the Navy, countries around the world have taken the more advanced Britain as a benchmark and model, even the Ming Empire, which was once the world's first naval power, is no exception.

In this way, from 155 mm to 410 mm caliber, the guns equipped on warships around the world all follow the British inch weights and measures, rather than the more regular-sounding Ming millimeter weights and measures.

The 356 mm caliber guns were powerful, and the damage to the Japanese defensive positions was very noticeable. With the bombardment on December 10, the North Sea Division fleet of the Ming Empire successfully destroyed the Japanese artillery battery near Yamato Island and pulled out a nail near the mouth of the Yalu River.

General Zhang Rude stood behind the heavy armor of the bridge, looking at the smoke-billowing horizon in the distance through the narrow glass window, his hands behind his back motionless, as if thinking about something.

Soon an officer walked into the command bridge of the battleship Huashan with a piece of paper recording radio contacts. He stood up and saluted, stood behind Zhang Rude, and reported respectfully: "Your Excellency, the correction plane has received news that the 32nd shelling hit the target hill, and the smoke of the explosion obscures the view, and it is difficult to judge the extent of the damage at present. ”

Zhang Rude nodded, then casually stretched out his arm and waved it twice, letting the officer who came to report retreat. The North Sea Division fleet of the Ming Empire was not placed here just to shell those worthless shore targets, at least in Zhang Rude's eyes, the combat effectiveness of those Japanese batteries could only be regarded as average, and it was not worth his fleet to be so vigorous.

Indeed, as he thought, the North Sea Division was mainly shouldered with two more important tasks: the first was to lure the Japanese naval fleet north, and then fight an encounter on the selected battlefield; The second was to shell the coastal areas and force the Japanese naval air force to come and annihilate them by the air force's cover fighters.

The second operational purpose had been partially completed on December 9, the Japanese did dispatch 30 planes to try to attack the nearby Ming Empire's North Sea Division fleet, but these planes were all eaten by the Ming Dynasty Air Force's Broken Air 2 fighters.

However, the first operational purpose was not completed for the time being because the Japanese Navy had not been able to go north for a long time. Therefore, the North Sea Division fleet of the Ming Empire could only continue to bombard the coastal fortifications of the Japanese army boringly, and hit some fortifications that were almost impossible to garrison.

As the southward movement of the Ming army became faster and faster, Zhang Rude's fleet also hit the Japanese coastal defense battery from Qifengli all the way to Yamato Island, a Japanese garrison island located relatively south. If he continued to go south, he would have to risk being attacked by Japanese planes, so Zhang Rude did not really plan to lead the naval fleet into the bay.

"Give a signal to the battleship Changbaishan for a final round of shelling, and then the fleet as a whole will turn around and leave this area." Zhang Rude looked at the Japanese garrison island with thick smoke billowing in the distance, and gave the battle order to retreat. He knew that the Japanese navy should have gone north, and there was no need for him to stay closer to the other side's coastline and take risks.

Soon, the signal light of the battleship Huashan played a command phrase, and the cruisers escorting around the three huge battleships began to adjust their formation, the battleship Hengshan was the first to turn, and the Huashan in the center also slowly began to move its huge body.

Because most of them are coal-burning warships, the North Sea Division fleet of the Ming Empire is also billowed with black smoke, and the black smoke gushing out from the countless chimneys of the entire fleet simply covers the sky and the sun, which looks very spectacular. With such a huge sea force, and more than such a fleet, it can be seen that the naval power of the Ming Empire is strong.

"I don't know, that Dongxiang Guiichi who dared to sneak attack the battleship Wuyishan, did he dare to attack the idea of my fleet?" His eyes slowly turned with his battleship, Zhang Rude's face was expressionless, but he was repeatedly thinking about the possible actions of the Japanese army in his heart. (To be continued.) )